"at night the ghosts floated like milkweed pod in the white meadows"
ray bradbury
I’m a strange new kind of inbetween
thing aren’t I
not at home with the dead nor with the
living
there are rooftops to climb. crypts to hide in. old trees to embrace. we still have the energy to run away. be wild as we used to be. wild things go crazy when they have to live in a cage.
i always used to say that one day i’ll run away.
will i?
WILL I????
my heart is breaking right now
"I had all the characteristics of a human being - flesh, blood, skin, hair - but my depersonalisation was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, the rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning. Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn’t figure out why - I couldn’t put my finger on it."
Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was mysterious. But they were all damaged, you see. Something not right about the lot of them. Bad blood. Big dreams. Oh, I left that part out. Sorry, that should have come before. They were all dreamers, these girls. One by one, night after night, the girls came together. And they sinned.
Do you know what that sin was? No one? Pippa? Ann? Their sin was that they believed. Believed they could be different. Special. They believed they could change what they were--damaged, unloved. Cast-off things. They would be alive, adored, needed. Necessary. But it wasn't true. This is a ghost story remember? A tragedy. They were misled. Betrayed by their own stupid hopes. Things couldn't be different for them, because they weren't special after all. So life took them, led them, and they went along, you see?
They faded before their own eyes, till they were nothing more than living ghosts, haunting each other with what could be. With what can't be. There, now. Isn't that the scariest story you've ever heard?
Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
“your son died?! oh my god! i’m so sorry. h.. how, if you don’t mind me asking?”
“he couldnt exhibit enough self control to not submerge his fucking head in a river of chocolate”
nussi und ana. |
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."
- Douglas Coupland
google street view, irgendwo bei nächtlichen virtuellen rundfahrten auf strassen, die ich niemals im real life sehen werde, an wildem gestrüpp und sträuchern vorbei und an farmhäusern, die so abgelegen sind, dass man sich nur wundern kann, dass sie überhaupt schon entdeckt wurden. die meisten häuser sehen dort aus wie die absteige eines serienkillers und irgendwie wirken dort auch schon die schatten bedrohlich. man erwartet dort nichts gutes, und gerade deshalb liebt man es so, dort entlangzufahren. man hat sowieso alle virtuellen autotüren verriegelt. trotzdem geht dieses sonderbare gefühl nicht weg, dass man nicht hier sein sollte...dass man irgendwie unerwünscht ist.
dann passiert man dieses haus. es hat säulen. vier säulen, die den absolut deplazierten eindruck erwecken wollen, dass es sich um griechische säulen handelt. das ganze gebäude macht auf griechischer tempel und ist so fake wie nur sonstwas sein kann. man dreht um und fährt wieder an dem haus vorbei. und wieder und wieder. dann parkt man davor. und ganz plötzlich weiss man dass es eigentlich einem selbst gehören müsste. es ist auf sonderbare art und weise das haus, in dem man wohnen müsste. ob man will oder nicht.